<p>What great news! Congratulations and best wishes to you and your daughter.</p>
<p>What a roller coaster for your daughter and your family. I am so glad to hear she is progressing in her recovery and blown away by her fantastic news...comes at a good time!</p>
<p>Congratulations, soozie, fabulous news to get big bucks from the creme de la creme - she must be a very talented actress and have one heck of a set of pipes!</p>
<p>Susan,
How wonderful to hear more fabulous news! So glad the recovery is going well ... all that good news HAS to be helping!
Congratulations!</p>
<p>Also, as I wrote on Berurah's thread, you both have been fabulous role models to those of us with juniors just embarking upon this journey. Thank you.</p>
<p>Another congrats - she clearly really has all that it takes to succeed.</p>
<p>Like berurah, I want to thank you for posting on my gS congrats thread. You have so much going on, to take the time and include heartfelt comments is so very generous. I appreciate it.</p>
<p>Congratulations! That is fabulous news! I am sure that the good news also will help speed her recovery.</p>
<p>I'm so happy for all of you to have such wonderful news. </p>
<p>Courage, fortitude, and exceptional talent and ability, all wrapped up in one amazing young woman. </p>
<p>Congratulations!</p>
<p>Susan, that's so wonderful to hear. Warmest congratulations, and all best wishes for a full and speedy recovery for your girl.</p>
<p>Susan,</p>
<p>How absolutely marvelous and healing and encouraging your thread is to all of us who have come to care for you and your daughter on this forum. You all remain in my thoughts and prayers for the time of recuperation, and I know that the happiness of this news will bring that on all the faster. So HAPPY for you!</p>
<p>Susan,
Congratulations to your daughter on her terrific acceptances AND the scholarship to NYU/Tisch!</p>
<p>Woo Hoo!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Susan, so glad your daughter is home and has had such wonderful news. I am certain the honors are well deserved. Just thrilled for her and for all of you.</p>
<p>Susan-</p>
<p><em>POP</em></p>
<p>And so pops the third bottle of e-champagne for CC parents:</p>
<p>In honor of Susan's D - a chilled bottle of Mo</p>
<p>Susan--</p>
<p>It's truly wonderful to hear that your daugther's recovery is coming along and that she's getting such fantastic recognition. I can scarcely imagine the ups and downs you've been through in the past few weeks, but I'm so glad the high points keep coming.</p>
<p>I can't even begin to find the words to say what I think of the parents who participate on this forum. I have hung out here for 2 1/2 years and many of you have as well and many are newer, though it does not matter. But one thing you all have in common is being extremely thoughtful, intelligent and supportive parents, even though I don't know ya in person. It is an amazing "community" on top of the ones I find myself in my regular life. I thought this way about this forum for a long time but truly the outpouring of care and support during this rough ordeal my teenager has gone through the past 2 1/2 weeks due to her serious car accident is beyond my wildest imagination. I am TRULY touched. I don't think my daughter can even comprehend it all. I have received so many emails (and I feel guilty as anything that I am so backlogged on individual replies and for now, resorted to a group email and posts on this forum to hit more folks at once who have contacted me). Already in my own community and among my daughter's own friends both in and out of state, the calls keep coming, the card pile arrives daily and the gifts are overflowing. I hate to think someone has to go through this to find out just how many people care or love ya and just who you have touched in this world but it sure does show in this situation. It has gone beyond our and her circle of friends. She gets cards and gifts from kids who simply know her a little but are not close friends (one writes about how my daughter has always been her "hero" to whom she has aspired...). Then there are things from internet friends of mine which I find incredible. Add to that the fact that we live in a small community where everyone knows who everyone else is. I have barely been in "circulation" but the two times I have gone out of the house, I have been stopped by every person, some who I know and some that I don't, asking how my daughter is. Some just know my face. I go in the market and every worker there is coming up to me. Cards arrive from those in the community who know who she is but are not ongoing friends. Two of the motorists who stopped to aid my daughter following the accident on the interstate have contacted us several times to check on her. One man traveled fifty miles to locate us at the hospital to see what happened to her. At the time she was in surgery. He then drove to our community a few days ago and asked if he could meet this girl in person again and his care and concern was so overwhelming from a complete stranger (he wanted her photograph and he planned on framing it and felt as though it could have been his own daughter)...my daughter cried when he came because here was a person who was there in her time of need who called for help. </p>
<p>There are INCREDIBLE people in this world and you guys fit that club. </p>
<p>Today, I felt really emotional because yesterday in the newspaper was the story of an 18 year old high school senior in a community not far from us who also had lost control of her vehicle, though not on an interstate. But she hit a telephone pole that went right through the car which was demolished and she had to be extricated and then was taken to the same first hospital that my D had gone to initially and then this girl was airlifted to the hospital at Darmouth in critical condition. In today's papers, the news was that she did not make it. Can you fathom how it is right now for HER parents? That could have been my kid. My child's accident was just as serious and even at a higher speed due to it being on an interstate at 65 (the speed limit here). My child had someone watching over her in terms of luck that even though she hit the rock ledge head on and rolled the car over several times, she somehow survived and her injuries will not be permanent or maiming, though she certainly had several horrible ones and there were risky and anxious moments involved (which thankfully have lessened at this juncture). Why one kid had luck on her side and another did not, seems so unfair. </p>
<p>Can you imagine opening up these acceptances right now and the child no longer living? I shudder to think it. I could barely deal with hearing my answering machine when I got home from the hospital because on it was my daughter dutifully leaving the message that she had left the dance studio (she has been instructed to call when she leaves and calls when she arrives when driving herself). Then there are many messages from the kids she was to have met (she was meeting them two exits away because she is not yet allowed to drive alone to the city where they were going and so was going to leave her car and then go in theirs as they have had their licenses longer) and these kids are asking where is she, and why hasn't she shown up? Thankfully I still have my child. </p>
<p>And of less importance but still matters, is that with all she is enduring plus the short term disappointments of all the special performances she will be missing, if she had to get a slew of rejections right now on top of it. She may get some (we are waiting on a few more schools) but it won't matter as much when she is sitting with several acceptances. Things could be much worse. </p>
<p>Momsdream, how did you know that I LOVE champagne for special occasions? I will enjoy your virtual champagne. Wish we could toast ALL these kids on here at a real party. They all have bright futures ahead. </p>
<p>Yulsie, I must admit (though of course I am her mom), she does have a set of pipes...she projects on stage....no mic needed...she is a Broadway style belter to be sure...When she was little, my dad called her Ethel Merman. I wish he could have known how it turned out for my kids in their college process (he died about 15 months ago so did not know the outcome of either child or my niece in this regard but he really was so interested in it). </p>
<p>Maineparent, you are right about the going after what you want in full throttle. I hope for parents of kids who go to an ordinary public school, rural in this case where not everyone is even collegebound, can truly make it if they dream it. In my younger child's case, she did not go to a performing arts high school (we don't have those here) or doesn't even have any drama classes in her school. Of course she gets a lot of her training outside of school and in summers but still she comes from a little rural public high school, nothing to write home about. I truly believe if a kid has goals and works toward them, anything is possible and it is not so much where you came from but who you are. Yes, kids of certain backgrounds definitely have advantages, I won't argue that. My kids had supportive parents who let them pursue anything they wanted and drove them all over and paid for this or that lesson or activity that they were interested in. But I am talking more of that it is not WHAT high school you come from so much but how you make the most of opportunities and then even CREATE your own opportunities. </p>
<p>Anyway, I wish I could respond to each and every message but this group response will have to do for now! </p>
<p>The words "thank you" seem so inconsequential for all you guys have done to "be there" late at night when I have had a moment to myself to read all the messages. So, here is a virtual HUG!</p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>Susan, Having just spent 10 days with my son, I'm feeling very immersed in college life and the importance of making the right choice. It sounds like your girls are very different in their interests and long term plans but very similar in their talent and drive. Tisch is truly the gold standard and no matter which school your daughter ultimately chooses, knowing that she's wanted so intensely must be enormously satisfying. She sure deserves all the good news that can come her way! You too.</p>
<p>Oh, I'm so happy for your D, Soozie. What wonderful choices she has... and what incredible merit aid! You must be flying now. How is she healing these days? Is she able to get out of bed at all yet? (I bet she wanted to fly out of bed when she saw the good news!)</p>
<p>So pleased for your D, soozie. Wasn't NYU her dream school? So many CCkids seem to be getting their dreams fulfilled. Wow.</p>
<p>Good thing SB has an endless supply of cyber champagne! :)</p>
<p>Susan, Happy! happy! Joy! Joy! Through your posts I have learned so much about MT that I would NEVER have known ,but this is the best "bit" so far. Give your D a (gentle) hug from me.</p>